Vishna Devi Nadarajah | Chief Executive Officer, Provost and Professor of Medical Education
Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia

Prof Vishna graduated with a First-Class Honours degree in Biochemistry from the University of Malaya (1994) and obtained her PhD at the University of Cambridge in Biochemistry (2000). She is also a graduate of the Masters in Health Professions Education from Maastricht University (2014). She has 27 years of experience in higher education and was previously Professor in the School of Medicine and Deputy-Vice Chancellor, Institutional Development and International at the International Medical University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her areas of research for health professions education is in Faculty development, Assessments, Professionalism and Innovative Teaching Learning methods. She is a member of the international editorial and advisory board of the journals Medical Education and Clinical Teacher. She was awarded the Malaysian Women's Weekly, Great Women of Our Time award for her contribution in Science and Technology in 2012 and the National Private Educator Award in 2018. Internationally she was awarded the ASME Gold Medal in 2023 and the Ian Hart Award for Excellence in Assessment in 2024.